10 tips on how to be confident to speak in English.

Hello! Today I want to share to you some tips on how to be confident to speak in English in your daily life.

1) Listen to more English songs. 
- By listening, you will improve your pronounciation and also add up your vocabulary.

2) Practice speaking by yourself.
- If you are too shy to talk to people, try to speak in front of the mirror everyday. I am sure it will boost your confidence level.

3) Get an online conversation partner.
- In this globalization world, you may use the internet wisely and find a friend from another countries in social website. Then, communicate with them in English.

4) Do not hesitate in speaking.
- Speaking English slowly will make your speech clearer and can easily be understood by listener. It also can gives you more time to think of what to say.

5) Read some English novels, or even comics.
- If reading a novel may be so hard, you may give a reward to yourself after achieving an ultimate goal such as "If I can read this novel in 2 weeks, I will have a short vacation." It will help to motivate yourself.

6) Watch English movies without a subtitle.
- If it so difficult to watch movies without subtitle, you can watch with English subtitle. Do focus in what the actors' pronounciation and new vocabulary.

7) Learn a new word everyday.
- You may choose a word you would like to use in your daily communication and practice it in different sentences.

8) Involve yourself in English activities.
-If you are a student, you must join a debate team or an organisation that will help you to improve your English skill.

9) Make your dictionary as your best friend.
- I know that everybody is too lazy to search the words in the dictionary, but please put your laziness aside. Dictionary will help you so much. You can use the online dictionary or the apps on your smartphone too.

10) Do not even bother what people said to you.
- Ignore the stupid mentality of community that love to condemn people who speak in English. Let them be, they will shut their mouth when they are bored.

That's all from me. Let's start practicing to communicate in English, or you will regret your whole life. Have a nice day ahead, everyone :)

10 challenges in acquiring English.

Hi everyone! Today, I would like to share with you guys about my challenges that I need to face in acquiring English language.

1) Our community mentality about people who try to communicate in English is very upsetting. They used to condemn and provoke new learner like me.

2) I do have a low self-esteem level. When approaching someone who is better than me, I feel hesitated to speak in English. I always feel like people will laugh at me.

 3) I am lacking words of vocabulary. Sometimes, I did not found the right word to use in my writing, and also in my communication.

4) I am quite bad in pronounciation, especially those new words that rarely be use.

5) I try so hard to watch English movies without subtitle, but I did not really understand them as they talk too fast plus their varieties type of accent.

6) I don't have a supportive friend that would encourage me to acquire English.

7) I hate reading English novels as I take a long time to digest what the writers' wrote.

8) I hate to discover new words from dictionary.

9) I often ignore the grammatical rules when writing an essay.

10) Inappropriate environment in practising English because everyone tend to use our national language, which is Bahasa Malaysia.

However, I am trying so hard to face this challenge so that I can acquiring English. We don't grow when things are easy; we grow when we face challenges. Challenges are what make life interesting, but overcoming them is what makes them meaningful. Keep calm & face the challenges. Fighting, dear self.

The new me.

Hello everyone! Since this is my first post in this blogging world, i would like to appreciate you guys for reading this. Thank you guys! *hugs*

Turning point in my life? Well, I guess everyone has their own kind of turning over a new leaf. So do me. Actually since I was a young little cute kid, I am the one that having fun with my life. I do enjoy in everything i did. Honestly, I still remember when I was Form 4, I was super lazy to do any homework that teachers gave them to me because I enjoy my life living easy and happy all the time. One fine day, I listened to a talk. A motivation talk. Later on I realized that there is no shortcut to success. I need to work hard in order to achieve success. But it was already at eleventh hour! Final examination was just around the corner. Somehow, I did not gave up. As for me, someone who gave up before the war is a coward. Totally a loser. Praises to Allah, even though it was a last minute study but I managed to get Top 20 which mean that I will be placed in the first class next year (Form 5).

The first class of form 5 students in my school is 5 Irsyad. The first time I entered that class, I was quite upset since there is none of my best buddies. One word of my first impression of my classmates is NERD. Through out  the year being with them, it was not that bad. As saying goes, do not judge a book by its cover. In this context, what I mean is do not simply judge person by their first appearance. I was having fun along the year with my classmates. They were so nice and kind. They will help me if I do not understand something. I was so grateful to be in that class. Time flied so fast and finally the day of fear – SPM examination day came. Everybody was very nerve-wrecking. Butterflies flew in everybody’s stomach. Paper by paper, we faced them calmly. For me, I really satisfied with what I answered during the whole examination week. Have faith in Allah. He will always be the best planner in our life. That is what I believed and told myself every single day.

After months of waiting the SPM result day, finally on 8^th March the result will be announced. Everyone else might feel frightened of the upcoming result. But I did not feel that feeling, because I’ve done my best. If Allah wills, then I will get the flying colour result. If not, I am okay….. I still remember that moments when my childhood best friend called me “Hi, Fatin! I’ve already checked my result. Alhamdulillah, 8A+ 1A. What about you?” I already expect that she will get straight A’s but there is no luck on her to get 9A+. But it is okay, that was great enough! She asked me to check my result via SMS. I do so as her advice. Then, I got the reply. “Your result: 5A+ 4A 1A-“ Oh my god! I got straight A’s. My daddy gave me a warming hug. I cried on his shoulder. Thanks Allah for this beautiful life. 

Okay, enough for that sweet memories. Memories will stay forever in our heart. Today, I am here. Secure a scholarship from Yayasan Terengganu and living as a TATIUC student to do our preparation programme. And again, time passed by too fast! I am already in my second semester. Do not ask me my semester 1 result, I do not even get it yet! However, new semester and of course new aim, new me. Aim high, fly high, isn’t it? Of course, every student will aim to get 4 flat. So do me. But, my personal determination is to be a better person day by day. Not only achieving success in this world, but also in the hereafter.

Till then, bye! Meet again in next entry :)